Since coming to power in 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan has shuffled his cabinet five times. More than half the PM’s cabinet has had its portfolio changed at least once.
April 2019: The first major hiring and firing in the country’s top decision-making body, the cabinet, took place in April 2019.
The changes included handing over the portfolio of the ministry of science to Fawad Chaudhry and relieving him of the ministry of information.
On the same day, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, a well-known economist, was appointed adviser to the prime minister on finance.
Prior to this, Asad Umar had resigned as the finance minister.
November 2019: Asad Umar did not stay out of the cabinet for long.
In November, he took oath as the minister for planning and development.
Khusro Bakhtiar, meanwhile, who previously held the portfolio of planning, was made the minister for national food security.
April 2020: The cabinet went through another shuffle.
One important change was removing Bakhtiar from the Ministry of Food and moving him to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Fakhar Imam was now the new minister for food.
December 2020: Sheikh Rasheed was appointed the interior minister, and Hafeez Shaikh took oath as the finance minister.
Ijaz Ahmed Shah, meanwhile, assumed charge as the Minister for Narcotics Control.
March 2021: Hafeez Shaikh is removed as the federal minister for finance and Hammad Azhar is appointed in his place.
Which ministers have had their portfolio changed the most?
Khusro Bakhtiar
Ministry of Planning Development
Ministry of National Food Security & Research
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Ijaz Shah
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Narcotics Control
Shehryar Afridi
Ministry of Narcotics Control
Ministry of States and Frontier Regions
Ministry of Interior
Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir
Ministers who have held on to their assigned ministries
There are a total of 30 ministers in the prime minister’s cabinet, including federal ministers and ministers of state. Of these men and women, only 14 have held on to their portfolios continuously since 2018. The rest have not.
Those who have remained in their ministries are:
Pervez Khattak
Zubaida Jalal
Shafqat Mahmood
Farogh Naseem
Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Tariq Bashir Cheema
Shireen Mazari
Fehmida Mirza
Ali Amin Khan Gandapur
Ali Haider Zaidi
Noor-Ul-Haq Qadri
Ali Muhammad
Zartaj Gul
Muhammad Shabbir Ali
